McGill University Faculty of Medicine

McGill University Faculty of Medicine
Faculté de médecine de l'Université McGill  (French)
Type Public
Established 1829
Dean David Eidelman
Students 688 MD, 35 MD-PhD, 10 MD-MBA
Location Canada Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Campus Urban
Website http://www.mcgill.ca/medicine/
The Faculty of Medicine Academic Affairs Office

The Faculty of Medicine is one of the constituent faculties of McGill University. It was established in 1829 after the Montreal Medical Institution was incorporated into McGill College as the College's first faculty; it was the first medical faculty to be established in Canada.[1] The Faculty awarded McGill's first degree, and Canada's first medical degree to William Leslie Logie in 1833.[2]

The faculty includes three schools, the School of Communication Sciences and Disorders, School of Nursing, and the School of Physical and Occupational Therapy. It also includes several research centres involved in studies on, for example, pain, neuroscience, and aging. Most of the non-clinical parts of the faculty are housed in the McIntyre Medical Sciences Building ("The Beer Can"), situated on McGill's downtown campus on the south side of Mount Royal between Avenue des Pins and Avenue Docteur-Penfield.[3]

The McGill University Health Centre is affiliated with the faculty, and is composed of five teaching hospitals — the Royal Victoria Hospital which incorporates the Montreal Chest Institute, Montreal General Hospital, Montreal Children's Hospital, Montreal Neurological Hospital. Five other major health care facilities are also affiliated with the faculty: Jewish General Hospital, Douglas Hospital, St. Mary's Hospital, Lachine Hospital and Lakeshore General Hospital. In April 2006, the Quebec government approved plans to commence the first phase of construction of the new, redeveloped McGill University Health Centre (MUHC) — which has been completed in 2015.[4]

On June 17, 2015, McGill was put on probation by the Association of Faculties of Medicine of Canada for violating 24 of 132 required standards.[5]

History

McGill's medical building 1872-1906

The Montreal Medical Institution, was established in 1823 by four physicians, Andrew Fernando Holmes, John Stephenson, William Caldwell and William Robertson, all of whom had been trained at the University of Edinburgh Medical School, and were involved in the foundation of the Montreal General Hospital.[6] In 1829 it was incorporated into McGill College as the new College's first faculty; it thus became the first Faculty of Medicine in Canada. A highly didactic approach to medical education called the "Edinburgh curriculum", which consisted of two six-month courses of basic science lectures and two years of "walking the wards" at The Montreal General Hospital, was instituted. From 1833 to 1877 the Faculty followed the pattern set by the University of Edinburgh and required graduating students to submit an 'inaugural dissertation' - a database of these is available.[7]

Sir William Dawson, the principal of McGill, was instrumental in garnering resources for the faculty and pioneering contributions from Thomas Roddick, Francis Shepherd, George Ross and Sir William Osler helped to transform the Victorian era medical school into a leader in modern medical education. Osler graduated from the MDCM program at McGill University Faculty of Medicine in 1872, and co-founded the present-day Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in 1893.

Education

Students of the Faculty of Medicine

McGill University Faculty of Medicine is currently the only medical school in Canada to award the four-year medical M.D., C.M. degree (MDCM). MDCM is an abbreviation of the Latin Medicinae Doctor et Chirurgiae Magister, which means "doctor of medicine and master of surgery." The Faculty of Medicine also offers joint degree programs with other disciplines including business M.D.-M.B.A. and science/engineering M.D.-Ph.D.. There is also an accelerated program for selected graduates of the Quebec junior college (CEGEP) system (PRE-MED-ADM or MED-P) that combines one year of science curriculum with the four-year M.D., C.M. degrees.

Admission into McGill Medicine is very competitive. For medical school students entering in 2010, the mean undergraduate GPA is 3.80, and the mean MCAT score is 32.1 (85th-88th percentile).[8][9]

Departments and Centres

Basic Sciences

Clinical

Centres

Notable faculty and alumni

See also

References

  1. ↑ Cruess, Richard L. "Brief history of Medicine at McGill". McGill University. Retrieved 15 September 2015.
  2. ↑ Crawford, DS. Montreal, medicine and William Leslie Logie: McGill's first graduate and Canada's first medical graduate. 175th. anniversary. [Osler Library Newsletter, No. 109, 2]http://www.mcgill.ca/library/files/library/No1092008.pdf
  3. ↑ http://cac.mcgill.ca/campus/buildings/mcintyre_medical_sciences.html
  4. ↑ "The MUHC redevelopment project", "McGill University Health Centre", 2008. Accessed May 17, 2008.
  5. ↑ "McGill Med Put on Probation". CBC. CBC. Retrieved 18 June 2015.
  6. ↑ "John Stephenson's Secret". McGill. McGill University. Retrieved 13 August 2014.
  7. ↑ MD and MDCM graduates and their theses 1833-1877. http://internatlibs.mcgill.ca/McGill-medical-theses/mcgill-theses.html
  8. ↑ http://www.mcgill.ca/medadmissions/why-mcgill-medicine/class-profile
  9. ↑ https://www.aamc.org/students/download/85332/data

Further reading

External links

Affiliated teaching hospitals

Coordinates: 45°30′30″N 73°34′54″W / 45.50835°N 73.58155°W / 45.50835; -73.58155

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